Jessica Biel's Ultimate Core Move for a Toned Midsection

Jessica Biel has long been known for her sculpted physique, and she doesn't rely on trendy fads to stay in shape. The actress, who rose to fame on 7th Heaven and later wowed audiences in The Sinner and Candy, prioritizes sustainable fitness habits over quick fixes. Her approach focuses on strength, flexibility, and mobility—ensuring she stays toned while avoiding injury.
One of Biel's go-to core moves comes straight from her Pilates routine, a practice she swears by for maintaining a strong midsection. She recently gave fans a peek into her workout on Instagram, showing off a controlled, challenging movement designed to engage her abs and improve overall stability. Alongside Pilates, Biel mixes in bodyweight exercises, yoga, and mobility work, proving that a balanced, mindful approach to fitness delivers long-lasting results.

Biel shared a video on Instagram of herself doing Pilates. According to Better Health, these exercises have a lot of benefits. "In Pilates, your muscles are rarely worked to the point of exhaustion, so there is not always sweating or straining, just intense concentration. The workout consists of a variety of exercise sequences that are performed in low repetitions, usually five to ten times, over a session of 45 to 90 minutes. Floor based exercises performed on a mat and specialised equipment for resistance are often used. The Pilates method is taught to suit each person and exercises are regularly re-evaluated to ensure they are appropriate for that person. Due to the individual attention, this method can suit everybody from elite athletes to people with limited mobility, pregnant women and people with low fitness levels."

Biel opened up about her favorite workouts in an interview with Women's Health. She says that she is focusing on mobility, as opposed to weight training. "When I was in my twenties, it was important to me how much I could bench press and how ripped my shoulders are, and all that stuff is less important to me now," she shared. "What's important to me now is mobility. I don't want to be living with pain."

Biel tells Women's Health that she loves doing bodyweight exercises. "We're just thinking about moving fluids through your body to get everything taut and lean and strong," she explained. "If I get sore and swell, it takes me a couple of days to come back down, and then your clothes are just fitting a different way because you're retaining lactic acid. [Those exercises] are meant to not make me too sore."

Biel makes sure that she and her family eat healthily. She tells Women's Health that she eats a lot of vegetables. "We were talking about it yesterday and Justin said, 'Do our kids need to eat more vegetables?' I was like, 'Yeah, but everybody kind of needs to eat more vegetables! Everyone in the whole world.'"

Biel loves to do yoga to keep herself in shape. She tells Women's Health, "I was searching for my identity as a person, and what defines me. And yoga became a space where I can really touch back into myself and my spirituality. To me it's not a 'competition' class. It was part of a community, which is something I loved."

When Biel hits the gym, she often doesn't go alone. She tells Women's Health, "I love working out with friends, and partners, and my husband—it's so much more fun to do it with someone else, you feel like you have a partner in crime, and you're not there alone."

Biel likes to work with a trainer to help herself stay in shape. She shared this video on Instagram of herself doing a workout that her trainer gave her. Biel captioned it, "In the gym with @benbrunotraining… and some other guy who won't stop distracting me!! 😅 Anyway. Ben just launched the coolest / easiest new program to help people get back on track in 2023 – eating healthier, getting stronger – it's so thorough… cannot recommend it enough. 🥇"